St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-28
THE CORONET WINNER.
The English Yacht Sails Into Cork Har-
Dor a Little After Noon
Sunday.
It Encounters Heavy Seas and Several
Storms, Including a Revol-
wing Gale.
The Dauntless Not Yet Heard From,
and It's Fate is in the
Balance.
Wilson and Woodson to Meet To-
Night--A Cooking Main--
Checker Talk.

LONDON, March 27.-The Coronet ar
rived off Queenstown at 1880 o'clock this
morning. Nothing had then been seen OF
the DauntleSS. The Coronet passed the
winning point at l2:41 o'clock under full
press of canvass, the wine at that hour be-
ing west northwest and fresh. In passing
the given line, ROche's Point the victorious
yacht fired five guns and the time was ut
once taken by the secretary and members
of the Royal Cork Yacht club, who had
been on the lookout for her arrival. The
club then hoisted signal announcing the
Coronet's arrival. The wind was blowing
hard and the Coronet entered Cork harbor
in spanking style. with all sails set and
hugging the western shore. The apparent
time occupied in the passage is II days, %
hours, 81 minutes 46 seconds, and
the actual time, computed on the Green
wich basis II days, l9 hours, minutes.
four seconds. The whole number of naut-
ical miles sailed is >, $40. The longest days
run is POI. miles. made on Saturday, March
Is and the shortest 3S.S miles made on
Tuesday, March %. The weather was un-
commonly stormy. even for this season of
the year. No less than seven heavy gales
contriYed to keep the sea in foment for
eleven days of the trip and for two days the
weather was so severe as to make the QueS-
ton of the yachts living through them
somewhat doubtful. She behaved splen-
didly, however, in all sorts of weather and
proved herself one of the staunchest if not
of the fastest vessels of her type afiOat.
No accidents happened to any of the sailors.
despite the great risks they were compelled
to undertake at times. With the exception
of three torn sails and little broken tackle,
everything on board the boat was in as good
shape when the anchor was dropped
OFF QUEENSTOWN
as when il was raised off Tompkinsville,
Staten Island. 1t is thought that a much
quicker passage might have been made had
Capt. Crosby carried more sails. On sew
eral occasions, when the wind was light
but the sky threatening. he was very eau
tiOus, and his judgment was controlled
largely by the barometer, which was much
of the time below 29o and seldom
above 80 , the nominal height in the lat-
tude trayersed. The course was more north
erly than was thought safe, but fOrtu-
nately, no icebergs or field ice were encoun-
tered. The number of persons Oh board
the Coronet was 29. including 16 sailors,
officers, the steward, cook. mess
boy and guests. The officers were:
Captain, c. p. Crosby; navigator,
T. s. c.. Anderson; mates, w. A.
Whittier and Otto Peterson: Boatswain.
Augustus Bergholm. The advantage gained
by the Coronet at the start increased the con-
tidence of those on board. 1t was the first
time that Capt. Crosby had ever partici-
pated in yacht race of any sort. He
freely admitted that he feared that Capt.
SamuelS. of the DauntleSS. with his past
experience, would succeed in crossing the
starting line somewhat ahead. How need
less uae apprehensions were is already
known, 1t is not too much to say that in
his manPuvering he display ed more judg-
ment and tact than is usually seen in races
near New York. After taking the anchor
OH board at II o'clock on the morning of the
start, he beat about the bay off Owls Head
surveying the water and verifying the po-
siton of buoys II and 10, between which
she must pass after
THE PROPER SIGNAL
had been made from the judges tug. When
the preparatory signal was given the Cor
net was making a reach up the bay with
head towards the battery. Crosby held the
wheel, and by his side was Capt. Anderson.
watch in hand, counting the seconds. Seven
minutes from the time of the first signal
Crosby ordered the helm ''hard a port" to
bli ing the boat lead around. She was un-
der fifty seconds in stays. and then fairly
flew before the strong northerly Winds AS
it had been arranged that the starting signal
would be given ten minutes after the pre-
paratory signal, it seemed probable that the
Coronet would reach the line fully a minute
before the time for the second signal when
ii would be necessary to go about again,
thus causing a considerable loss of time.
Crosby was equal to the emergency. how
ever. When he realized what was imnli-
nent he spilled the wind ort of
the sheets by trimming fat aft.
bringing the big schooner almost to a stand
STILL When the signal was finally given he
paid out the sheets fore and aft, ran up
the square sail, forestry sail and top sails.
and i'll thirty seconds had the Coronet
across the line. The Dauntless, it will be
remembered, was at Gowanus, nearly a
mile away, with her stern towards the
judges boat. Every possible stitch of can
vas was spread on the Coronet as she sped
through the Narrows at the rate of eighteen
miles an hour, surrounded by tugs, steam
erS and steam yachts. Once or twice,
when under the lee of the Highland. it
seemed as though her opponent was gaining
her lost ground rapidly, but when the wind
filled the sails again, she left the Dau2tless
further astern than at the start. The tortu-
Gus swash channel having been followed to
lighthouse. bore west by south and
THE OPEN SEA
portion OF the trip began The course laid
was east by south. The sky was clear. and
the breeze. which had veered around to
northwest, was freShened. When the ex-
curSion boat Bay Ridge, which was the only
one of the fleet of steamers to accompany
the racing yachts as far as Sandy Hook
light ship, turned back at about $40 p. m.,
the relative position of the schooners was
nearly the same as when they passed
through the NarrowS and they were steer
ing the sane course. The wind now was
greatly increased, heavy sea running
abean. The balloon and sky sails and top
sails on both boats were taken in about the
same moment Then the Dauntess dropped
astern rapidly, and at 5 o'clock was hull
down six miles away. She had changed
her course to south-southeaSt. and Just
before darkness set in only her top maSts
were visible. The first Sunday was
marked, as were seven of the ten
succeeding days, by gale, which
came from the northeast soon after mid
night. Although fairly moderate, it was
accompanied by strong head sea, which
made the yacht labor heavily. The waves
frequently broke over the bows. but she
rode it out well under close-reefed fore
and mainsails and jib. and averaged ten
miles an hour Oh the course throughout.
Thus early were the sea-going qualities of
the Coronet tried. She proved herself as
bouyant as cork and, recovering quickly
from the added weight caused by shipping
one heavy cargo OF water on her decks, she
would meet and mount the next wave as
easily and gracefully as swan. The only